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1.03.03 – Applied tropical short-rotation forestry

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Coordinator:
Sanjeev Chauhan, India
Deputies:
Trevor Abell, United Kingdom
Amaury P. De Souza, Brazil
Embaye Kassahun, Ethiopia

About Unit

Integrating approaches (intensive/extensive management  and conservation) to achieve multiple goals in a sustainable manner, more specifically achieving a balance between production and preservation.  The emphasis will remain on forest and outside forest areas to meet the wood based demands through short rotation forestry.

State of Knowledge

  • Towards agroecological  and economic health: diversifying traditional crop rotation through agroforestry
  • Carbon sequestration potential of agroforestry/farmforestry.
  • Production potential of exotic species in agroforestry and farm forestry plantations, and their improvement.   
  • Sustainable rehabilitation of degraded lands through short rotation forestry.

See also the publications page of this Unit.

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